The benevolent banner., 1887-10-08
As Frank as Ingals.

negro suffrage Is adelusion and snare |
and he is bold enough to say the priv
ilege should be taken away from |
them. But to what end? Only that
the republican party may thus Grip
pie the solid south. Very we'll; we
admire the frankness of Mr. Ingalls,
but it is too late to turn back now.
We are in favor of negro suftrage,not
because the race is prepared for it,
but because it gives the democratic
party of the south additional power.
We are inclined to be as frank in this
matter as Senator ingalls, is.-Atlanta
Constitution.
ingalls, did not say that the privl-
lege should be taken away from them.
He stated that the Confederate demo-
Gratis of the south had taken it away
from them, which the Atlanta Con-
stitutiOn admits is the truth. Negro
suffrage is failure, as ingalls, said
not because the negroes are not COM
petent to vote, but because the demo-
cratic party will not allow them to
vote, though it enumerates them in
the basis of representation to secure
additional power. The suppressed
negro vote in the south made Cleve-
land president. Ingalls, believes tn at
the republican party had better en-
force the Fifteenth amendment, be-
fore trying any further experiments
in suffrage, When the male negroes
IN Georgia are permitted to vote and
have their votes counted, it will be
time enough to consider the PROPOSE
ton of enfranchising the two million
negro women of the south. Equal
suffrage in an intelligent free state,
| like Kansas, is one thing, but in the
brutal and degraded democratic
despotisms Of the south it is quite
another. The disparity between the
northern and the southern voter is
large enough now. 1t will not be ill.,
creased by the action OF Ingalls, and
his stalwart republican associates,
done any delusive pretext, nor under
acumen and clamor from any quarter.
At the National Masonic COnven-
ton, held in Chicago, Ills, August
29d, oath, 25th and 26th, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed, in reply to telegram received
from Lemuel Googins, of Pittsburg,
Pa. The dispatch read:
Plttsburg, Pa, August 25, 1887.
j. w. Moore:
All Grand Lodge officers present
in convention are invited to meet the
National Grand Lodge at Whining
ton. Delaware, Oct. 4th next, to pre-
sent their views on the establishment
of a National Masonic Assembly.
LEMUEL GOoGINs,
Most Worshipful NATL Deputy
Grand Master. 531 Smithfeld street
After the reading of the telegram
Bro. Sam w. Clark, G. NJ, of Ohio
offered the following, which was un
animously adopted:
Whereas, A telegram has been re
ceived by this convention, from Lem
uel Googins, of Pitts5urg, Pa, invit
ING the officers of the Grand Lodge
present at this convention to NEE
the National Grand Lodge at Will
mington, Delaware, October 4th. 18o
to present their views on the esta0
ishment of a National Masonic AS
sembly. Therefore be it
Resolved, That this convention
e does not recognize the existence Q
, any such body as the National Gran
Lodge; and be 1t further
Resolved, That this cOnyentio
does hereby and herein vote its dc
/, nunciation of the act OF all person
who. in any manner whatever, all
e to resurrect body which has bee
It dead these many years, .and who, b
such act. stigmatize themselves
breeders of discord and dissensiol
I and perverters of the genuine prime
7 Piles of Masonry. And be it furtht
: Resolved, That all so-called Mason
bodies claiming to be Grand Lodge
7, under the authority of the so-calle
J; National Grand Lodge. together wit
:, their subordinate bodies, are heret
declared illegal and not entitled
le any fraternal consideration from Il
" sovereign and independent Grar
Lodges Of the Masonic faternity. Al